Captain Charles Johnson

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, one of the greatest writers of the 19th century. The novel depicts the journey an idle and unlawful child takes to get away from his pap and civilization. At the end of his adventures, Huck Finn no longer resembles that naughty kid who fools around the town making troubles, who enjoys himself without caring the feeling of his adoptive mother (Twain 2). These adventures reshape Huck into a fine young man who values friends, justice, and…

The Kensington Rune Stone: Real or fake? The story of the Kensington Rune stone began in 1898 after Olof Ohman, a Swedish farmer, discovered a rectangle stone when he was working on his farm near Kensington, Minnesota with his son. According to Barclay, Shelly. "The Kensington Runestone." N.p.,n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2010, Olof Ohman reported that the stone, which weighs 202 pounds and has thirty-one inches tall, sixteen inches wide, six inches thick, and it was unearthed under the roof of the tree.…

Do you believe that the country needs a government that has power over them? Or, are people better off with a government that adjusts to their will? In Michael Petry’s The Code Breaker, the Puppet Master does not believe that the government should hold the power to strictly implement laws and orders that control the people. The Puppet Master makes a solid argument that the government’s power needs to be limited because, left unchecked, government leaders are often corrupted by their own…

In the book The Time Machine, the Time Traveller theorize about how the Morlocks and the Eloi people evolved. Three of Time Traveller’s theories that clearly reflect Darwin’s main points will be explained throughout the essay. His first theory is that the Eloi are the sole descendants of mankind. After discovering the Morlocks, he thinks the Morlocks are slaves of the Eloi as his second theory. When the Time Traveller discovers that the Morlock hunt and terrify the Eloi, he speculates that his…

future generations. In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens follows the lives of characters living during this period of time. Many French citizens sacrificed their lives during the revolution out of love for their children and grandchildren to provide them with a better future. In this novel, love is also the reason that several characters give up an important possession for something of even greater value. Sacrifice in the name of love is shown by Charles Darnay, Doctor Manette, and Sydney…

Impact Social Darwinism had on Social Conformity The nineteenth century was known for the age of scientists and philosophers that flourished and spread their ideas throughout Western civilization. One of the most prominent scientists of the time was Charles Darwin, who introduced his theory of evolution and natural selection in 1859. The theory of evolution spread like wildfire throughout intellectual groups, and from that theory branched many other social theories. The main theory that came…

Two Cities by Charles Dickens is a historical fiction novel that has received a number of critiques that associate Dickens’s tone to criticize the societies of France and England during the Victorian era. Tone allows a writer to influence a reader's perspective on a particular circumstance by using specific words in their writing to portray a specific opinion. Charles Dickens, a social commentator, utilizes this method to show his readers social disparity throughout his novels. Charles Dickens…

Charles Dickens promotes the idea that association with societal issues reveals one’s true nature. Dickens does so by characterizing figures of Great Expectations according to their response to these societal beliefs, specifically through characters Pip and Estella. Pip shows significant maturation throughout the novel, credited to his constant conflict with criminality. The first scene of Great Expectations introduces this conflict as Pip meets Magwitch. Pip, being six or seven years old,…

To begin with, I think it is necessary to address the fact that the spirit of Christmas varies hugely depending on the stave or character Dickens is referring to in the novel. Briefly, we know Scrooge, the main protagonist, doesn't appreciate Christmas; 'bah humbug' and 'A squeezing, wrenching, gasping, clutching, covetous, old sinner'. ( First quote shows his hatred towards Christmas, the other shows his personality). Where as, if we take Bob Cratchit, the clerk working for Scrooge, he enjoys…

characters about how he has now worth once even saying to Charles Darnay Charles is the person he wishes he could never be. There are other times he alludes to himself as being unimportant and without worth like “Why should you particularly like a man who resembles you? There is nothing in you to like; you do know that.” (Dickens 536) Was Sydney Carton gonna forever hate everything in life centering everything around himself? As Sydney took Charles place at the guillotine was he still doing it…